HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081014170
Bassin de Sassandra
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 3 administrative regions : Gbôkle, Nawa, San-Pédro
Sub-basin area
2 140,2km²
Upstream area
68 327km²
Discharge
398,07m³/s
Mean elev.
97m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Dobo1023 km²
- Bassin de Sassandra222 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1701.8 km²79.9% of basin
- 292.2 km²13.7% of basin
- 136.9 km²6.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Niegre
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
832.14 km² overlap
Complexe Sassandra-Dagbego
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
2.52 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
821 distinct species · 3 447 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,9°C
Annual rain
1 463mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,02
Runoff
556mm/an
PET
1 490mm
AET
1 110mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
91cm
Forest
31%
Crops
14%
Urban
1%
Protected
39%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)